Yeah, got some upset kids here but did manage to find a correct steam

Sorry. 200k people were on that. Scum. Everyday astronaut is the one I’m watching now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DTXk

Live stream available here. Apparently launch in 40 minutes or so from this comment:

Edit: that was some dirty link sorry

I did think that. :) It’s just… So good. I hope it never enshitifies. God help us.

For the uninitiated like me:

The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.

Wikipedia link.

Yeah I can see that perspective. It depends a lot on the city I suppose.

You gave me pause for thought and I suppose I just like being in nature more. :)

Oh, Berlin and Amsterdam are also stand out cities. Yeah maybe I like them more than I think I do.

It’s hard to understand the absoluteness of the stranglehold that the government has there without visiting. Cameras everywhere tracking everything. Little police booths everywhere to remind you. Even inter-city travel by high speed train requires an ID check. You cannot own your own car in the larger cities without a car license that you must apply for annually. All messaging apps are unencrypted and monitored. etc etc

Not a huge city lover because I find a lot of them very samey but New York and Hong Kong are incredible places.

Last time I was there was before COVID and I wonder how much of it’s vibrance has been sucked out since. 40 minutes north, Shenzhen is drab and lifeless by comparison.

Hoss is just one of at least nine Indigenous people to have died in police custody or during interactions with law enforcement across Canada since August 29

What the fuck? That’s only 39 days ago.

Edit: 36 days from when the article was written.

Compress those suckers!

No, that was Liz Truss, the British prime minister and it was a lettuce.

Right…I’ll preface all this by saying I live in an RCV country which used to have a 2 party system way back when. The question was genuine because I’m very happy with our voting system and if there were flaws I’m interested to explore better options.

The hypothetical you’re discussing there never happens. I’ve been voting for 30 years and have never come across (or myself done) the kind of shenanigans you mention. There’s just no need for it.

You go in, rank your options in order and the fairest option for you (with some small caveats) comes out on top. Our recent European elections in my district are a good example. There were 4 seats up for grabs and 8 parties and a bunch of independents up. The larger parties will frequently field 2 candidates. In that election, the 5th place candidate overtook 4th on eliminations from the 6th place preferences to take the last seat.

In the case of the nazi’s, they get eliminated first round here then 90+% of their votes will pass to some other right wing party with 10% not counting because they are the end of the line for that voter.

One example I’ll give is for a centre left voter. They would hypothetically vote some combination of labour, greens and centre left independents. Once those options had run out on the ballot, you’re looking at whether they’re more likely to go far left or centre right. Where I live, a large number of the votes will actually fall centre right as they’re closer idealogically than far left.

For what it’s worth, here’s how the breakdown of voting was in my district:

https://www.rte.ie/news/elections-2024/results/#/local/fingal-county-county

The counting thing actually adds a bit of spice and voter excitement because you’re keen to see how votes transfer in each round. Certainly I was checking in regularly and was keen to see if the pundits were right on the final elimination I mentioned above (they were).

Recounts are rarely necessary but do happen in the event that it’s looking close for an actual seat and not who’s going to be eliminated next.

I have heard of star voting and must read more on it, but I am very happy with RCV for now and I’m not sure Star would represent any meaningful change in a country that moved from 2 party to many party with a strong independent voice in our parliament.

Edit: One thing I like about RCV is voting for a candidate even though I feel they’re likely to get eliminated simply because they match my views closely, knowing that my further down preferences will count and if they are elected well all the better. That is just not really an option with FPTP. It’s a horrible system.

I’m curious to hear what those issues are?

I feel well represented under RCV.

Ireland also has this. It’s great. I believe that’s what’s being referred to as “ranked choice voting” in this thread.

I would generally go quite far down the ballot though I do believe some stop at 1 or 2.

I got the one for you, follow me.

Fair enough. :) Tell you what though… Green shirt and denim jeans sounds like a solid combo.

I think you’re being downvoted because if you had a reputable link you’d just link it.

Any time someone says “just Google it” it sets off massive bullshit alarms.

That’s my understanding. It’s a long time ago but I believe they bought out Sun when they were facing bankruptcy.

If they’d released the x86 version of Solaris when it became clear that SPARC couldn’t keep up with Intel and AMD that could have been a possibility.

Solaris was such an amazing OS.

I dont have a dog in this fight.

Of course you do. Allowing borders to be redrawn by force isn’t good for stability anywhere.